R: Administrative districts of Germany

adjacency {spam} | R Documentation

## Administrative districts of Germany

### Description

Constructing the adjacency graph of the administrative districts of Germany

### Usage

    adjacency.landkreis( loc)

### Arguments

`loc` | location of the graph structure, can be an URL.

### Details

The function is included as an example on how to construct adjacency matrices form a (common) adjacency structure. For the particular example, note that the nodes are not numbered consecutively and that they start from zero.

### Value

a sparse matrix in `spam` format.

### Author(s)

Reinhard Furrer

### References

The adjacency data has been provided by Havard Rue and is also available in INLA.

### See Also

`germany.plot` super-seeding `map.landkreis` for plotting.
`Oral`.

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    loc <- system.file("demodata/germany.adjacency", package="spam")
    display( adjacency.landkreis( loc))

    ## End(Not run)

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